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for a character who’s survived something so ter- we can no longer look at our unvarnished selves at
rible, is what gets her excited. “I came back from all. A selfie is by nature self-loving, but it’s become
this movie remembering—this can be super fun self-loathing.” I leave her house with no fewer than
and creative and collaborative!” It energized her so four books that she wants me to read, including
much that she came home and wrote a screenplay, ‘A selfie is that World War I book, Wade Davis’ Into the Si-
for an eco-horror movie that she plans to direct. “It by nature lence. (She bought multiple copies to give away to
kicked me into a creative space,” she says. self-loving, friends, as she does with many books she loves.)
Creative spaces are familiar for Curtis, who but it’s A few weeks later, Halloween opens to glowing
grew up in Hollywood, the daughter of legend- reviews and a monster take at the box office, earn-
ary actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. But she’s become ing over $77.5 million. It marks several milestones,
as voluble when discussing her other interests as self- including the biggest horror-movie opening with
she is talking about her movies. The subject of her loathing.’ a female lead and the highest-grossing film open-
recovery from an addiction to painkillers, which ing with a female lead over 55. When Curtis posts
JAMIE LEE CURTIS, on Twitter about these record-breaking stats, her
she calls “the single greatest thing I’ll ever do in
ANDREW H. WALKER—VARIET Y/SHUT TERSTOCK epidemic in America, and we talk for a long time where she’s doing press for the movie. “It is a story
on our selfie-
my life,” leads to a conversation about the opioid
tweet goes viral. She writes me from Australia,
obsessed
culture
about her latest children’s book, Me, Myselfie & I:
with a happy ending,” she says. “In my industry
A Cautionary Tale, about a mom who becomes ob-
this doesn’t happen very often, if ever, and that I
sessed with documenting her family’s life. “I’m ter-
am getting this opportunity as I am kissing 60 is
beyond my wildest dreams. I’m the luckiest girl
rified by social media—the obsession with our cu-
in the world.” And she sends me a selfie with the
rated lives,” she says. “I don’t proselytize, because
Sydney Opera House in the background. It doesn’t
I cop to it too! How quickly you can hit the little
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look overly filtered, but she’s still glowing.
booster button that brightens you up. The idea that
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